Practical Advice for Handling Real-World Project Challenges

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When you’re responsible for a project, large or small, things will go
wrong. Even if you’re a skilled project veteran with a solid plan,
things will happen that you least expect. And if you’re less
experienced, there are a startling number of ways that your project can
get into trouble. Despite your best efforts and intentions, there are
plenty of problems and challenges that can—and often will—arise at any
step and from any angle to derail your team’s hard work.

What you need—right away—are field-proven fixes, practical answers to
urgent questions, and simple strategies for navigating around the
unforeseen obstacles you’ll encounter throughout your project.

You can put that dry, unhelpful tome of academic theory back on the
shelf. 101 Project Management Problems and How to Solve Them
shows you how to:

• Manage project teams who have little or no project management
experience

• Make up for lost time without cutting corners

• Succeed in the face of threatened budget cuts

You’ll find out how to ensure good project management practices during
organizational process changes . . . successfully deal with contributor
hostility or reluctance during start-up . . . handle undependable
contributors . . . bring new people up to speed on already-started
projects . . . respond to increased demands from management after the
project baseline has been set . . . work with limited resources . . .
minimize potential late project testing failures and deliverable
evaluation issues . . . manage a project through reorganizations, market
shifts, and other external changes . . . and much more.

Arming you with immediately usable fixes to a wide range of real-world
project challenges, this one-of-a-kind, on-the-job troubleshooter will
help you deal effectively with whatever unexpected problems come your
way—and get your project on track for success.

TOM KENDRICK is a project management consultant and former
project management executive for Hewlett-Packard and for Visa Inc. He is
the author of Identifying and Managing Project Risk, Results
Without Authority, and The Project Management Tool Kit.

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